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VALEDICTORIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does valedictorian mean?
• VALEDICTORIAN (noun)
The noun VALEDICTORIAN has 1 sense:
1. the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement
Familiarity information: VALEDICTORIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
valedictorian; valedictory speaker
Hypernyms ("valedictorian" is a kind of...):
bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)
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